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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs
FIPA 2009 - Competitive selection Creative Documentaries
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Welcome to Paradise

This film deals with the arrival and settling in the United States of Fosia and Aden, two Somali Ashrafs, who spent more than 15 years in a refugee camp in northwest Kenya. A young man and girl among so many others, displaced under the auspices of the UN and the IOM (International Organization for Migration). Their story exemplarily illustrates the fate of millions of other refugees who, under political or economic pressures, must sacrifice their culture and life style for a theoretically "better life". We follow Fosia and Aden, from their daily life in the Kakuma refugee camp until their settling and integration in their new homeland. Portrait of an exile that raises questions about the main values of our western civilization.
Belgium - 2008 - 56 mn - DV Cam • 16/9 • PAL - Colour
Director
Manuel Poutte
Writer
Florence Vandendorpe
Camera
Manuel Poutte, Julien Salleron
Sound
Fabrice Grizzard
Editing
Séverine Desteyker
Music
Philmarie

Production
Lux Fugit Film,
Rue Théophile Vander Elst, 104,
1170 Bruxelles, Belgique
Tél : +32 (0)2 644 2628
Fax : +32 (0)2 644 2628
E-mail : luxfugitfilm@gmail.com

Co-Production
WIP-Wallonie Image Production

Sales
Thierry Detaille
WIP-Wallonie Image Production,
Thierry Detaille,
16-17, quai des Ardennes,
4020 Liège, Belgique
Tél : +32 (0)4 340 1045
Fax : +32 (0)4 340 1041
E-mail : th.detaille@wip.be